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...you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.

David Deida

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David Deida
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: March 18
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Non-Fiction Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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